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Sunday, November 16, 2014

Why Are Bloomberg And Klein Still Considered Tech Geniuses?

I thought you and your readers might be interested in an article I wrote
on Schoolbook on Jan. 28 in the long, painful lead-up to the contract
negotiations called "Cut Waste at Education Department Before
Negotiating Teachers Contract."

One could put any number of the
technology and organizational and procurement boondoggles from the
Bloomberg Era in any order of waste, perversity or simple
ineffectiveness: my top candidates were SESIS (the "Special Education
Student Information System"), your very own beloved ARIS, failure to
collect hundreds of millions in federal and state reimbursements to the
City for providing "related services" to students with disabilities
because the DOE has no effective way to capture the information that
would support the claims, stopping non-competitive contracts and
procurements to "DOE-friendly" organizations and reforming or
eliminating the failed and expensive school network systems.

I
have always found it remarkable that the man who was responsible for
building one of the most successful financial technology companies in
the world could not get a single effective technology system build
during his time in the City-- ARIS, SESIS, City-Time, Enhanced 911--but
yet he and Joel Klein were lionized as visionaries and effective
managers by many who wanted to believe.

and most shockingly, the person in charge of awarding corrupt contracts to her lover was only fined $1000 despite the city being overcharged by millions: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/education-department-finance-boss-fined-1g-giving-tips-lover-article-1.1772591

That the Fun Size Mayor was able to use a combination of wealth-awe and a crest of white ethnic xenophobia to "serve" two "legitimate" and one clearly bought and paid for illegal third term and the BS $1 a year salary and I'll stay in my own place promises he made as a loss leader to gain entree to the skimning feast tgat is the letting of city contracts, in this case, egegiously cronyistically so is a sad commentary on the political system and intelligence of NYC vote.Again with Bhara long ago being bought and paid for, we will have to wait for his departure and the inevitable opening of a few more mouths before this mess begins to be really exposed.Meanwhile , the taxes and fees city residents have to pay as a redult of this plunder of the municipal fisc continue unabated...